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There isn't enough data out yet, but there are definitely examples of employees being laid off by the 1000s across the country, due to AI taking over their duties. Not just blue collar jobs, but professional employment as well. AI can code better than any programmer, no matter how many years of experience they have. It can design better than engineers, it can replace writers, editors, accountants, finance analyzers, educators, clinical support, management and operations, journalism (thank God), and even therapists. 

That is just the professional industries. There will be advanced robotic systems to handle the hands-on nitty gritty jobs soon. 

So my concern is that if people are not working, then how will the country attain its tax revenue? The government may tax the same companies that have more AI implementation, but that won't solve anything. Usually, when new tech comes about, when jobs are lost, new industries emerge, and it balances back out. However, any new industry emerging will be AI itself. So then what? 


Question: how will the country sustain its tax revenue with so many jobs gone, as AI emerges more into mainstream?

Vegas » 20 May 2026, 10:40 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:40 am

There isn't enough data out yet, but there are definitely examples of employees being laid off by the 1000s across the country, due to AI taking over their duties. Not just blue collar jobs, but professional employment as well. AI can code better than any programmer, no matter how many years of experience they have. It can design better than engineers, it can replace writers, editors, accountants, finance analyzers, educators, clinical support, management and operations, journalism (thank God), and even therapists. 

That is just the professional industries. There will be advanced robotic systems to handle the hands-on nitty gritty jobs soon. 

So my concern is that if people are not working, then how will the country attain its tax revenue? The government may tax the same companies that have more AI implementation, but that won't solve anything. Usually, when new tech comes about, when jobs are lost, new industries emerge, and it balances back out. However, any new industry emerging will be AI itself. So then what? 

Question: how will the country sustain its tax revenue with so many jobs gone, as AI emerges more into mainstream?

Time to tighten the tax dollar belt......national security should be the only federal concern.

Yes, that includes Israel.....who is guarding our Eastern Front.

RebelGator » 20 May 2026, 10:45 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:45 am

Time to tighten the tax dollar belt......national security should be the only federal concern.

Yes, that includes Israel.....who is guarding our Eastern Front.

How about our roads, infrastructure, law enforcement, schools (well, our schools suck anyway, so no loss there), Medicare, or social security?

Vegas » 20 May 2026, 10:47 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:47 am

How about our roads, infrastructure, law enforcement, schools (well, our schools suck anyway, so no loss there), Medicare, or social security?

State concerns.

RebelGator » 20 May 2026, 10:48 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:48 am

State concerns.

Including your state. So what will happen to your state?

Vegas » 20 May 2026, 10:50 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:50 am

Including your state. So what will happen to your state?

If I lived in New York, I'd say New York City would bankrupt us, but since I don't, my state is conservatively governed, if not there would be revolt.

RebelGator » 20 May 2026, 10:53 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:53 am

If I lived in New York, I'd say New York City would bankrupt us, but since I don't, my state is conservatively governed, if not there would be revolt.

It doesn't matter how its governed. Money is how we survive. Period.  What is a revolt going to do?  Will that magically produce tax revenue?

Vegas » 20 May 2026, 10:56 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:56 am

It doesn't matter how its governed. Money is how we survive. Period.  What is a revolt going to do?  Will that magically produce tax revenue?

You don't think upstate New Yorker's should be revolted?

Got any idea what those poor bastards have to pay to finance an Islamic Socialist City?

RebelGator » 20 May 2026, 11:01 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:01 am

You don't think upstate New Yorker's should be revolted?

Got any idea what those poor bastards have to pay to finance an Islamic Socialist City?

New York voted in a socialist. So they get what they deserve. Oh well. But that is a deflection to my point. This thread is about the possibility of AI's effect on the country's tax revenue. 

Vegas » 20 May 2026, 10:40 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:40 am

There isn't enough data out yet, but there are definitely examples of employees being laid off by the 1000s across the country, due to AI taking over their duties. Not just blue collar jobs, but professional employment as well. AI can code better than any programmer, no matter how many years of experience they have. It can design better than engineers, it can replace writers, editors, accountants, finance analyzers, educators, clinical support, management and operations, journalism (thank God), and even therapists. 

That is just the professional industries. There will be advanced robotic systems to handle the hands-on nitty gritty jobs soon. 

So my concern is that if people are not working, then how will the country attain its tax revenue? The government may tax the same companies that have more AI implementation, but that won't solve anything. Usually, when new tech comes about, when jobs are lost, new industries emerge, and it balances back out. However, any new industry emerging will be AI itself. So then what? 

Question: how will the country sustain its tax revenue with so many jobs gone, as AI emerges more into mainstream?

finance analyzers,

**** is never worth reading.

Vegas » 20 May 2026, 11:03 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:03 am

New York voted in a socialist. So they get what they deserve. Oh well. But that is a deflection to my point. This thread is about the possibility of AI's effect on the country's tax revenue.

I know you're worried they won't collect enough, my concerns are exactly opposite.

RebelGator » 20 May 2026, 10:53 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 10:53 am

If I lived in New York, I'd say New York City would bankrupt us, but since I don't, my state is conservatively governed, if not there would be revolt.

Have you ever been to NYC?

Upstate?

Who do you believe subsidizes whom?
 

RebelGator » 20 May 2026, 11:07 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:07 am

I know you're worried they won't collect enough, my concerns are exactly opposite.

But how? Where are they getting the tax revenue when the jobs are bleak?

Blackvegetable » 20 May 2026, 11:07 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:07 am

**** is never worth reading.

You have a 4th grade reading level, so it doesn't matter anyway. 

Blackvegetable » 20 May 2026, 11:08 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:08 am

Have you ever been to NYC?

Upstate?

Who do you believe subsidizes whom?

Here's your clue....

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a $4 billion budget assistance package for New York City to close its projected $5.4 billion fiscal shortfall. The state intervention, widely framed by critics as a "bailout," brought the total pledged state aid to the city to $8 billion over a two-year period. This critical funding enabled newly-elected Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani to unveil a balanced $124.7 billion executive city budget without resorting to threatened property tax hikes or sweeping service cuts. 
 

Screw AI. Get off of your *** and learn a skill. Skilled people will always be in demand.

Blackvegetable » 20 May 2026, 11:08 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:08 am

Have you ever been to NYC?

Upstate?

Who do you believe subsidizes whom?

Hides 3 damn times. 3. in one post. He hides three times. 

The cowardice...

RebelGator » 20 May 2026, 11:11 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:11 am

Here's your clue....

New York Governor Kathy Hochul announced a $4 billion budget assistance package for New York City to close its projected $5.4 billion fiscal shortfall. The state intervention, widely framed by critics as a "bailout," brought the total pledged state aid to the city to $8 billion over a two-year period. This critical funding enabled newly-elected Democratic Socialist Mayor Zohran Mamdani to unveil a balanced $124.7 billion executive city budget without resorting to threatened property tax hikes or sweeping service cuts.

Meaning the city gets some more of its own money back.


New York City receives 40.5% of New York State’s total operating expenditures, despite generating nearly 55% of all state revenues.Because of this revenue-to-spending disparity, NYC taxpayers contribute more to the state's coffers than the city receives in state funds, resulting in a net transfer of resources to other regions of the state.
 

Vegas » 20 May 2026, 11:17 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:17 am

Hides 3 damn times. 3. in one post. He hides three times. 

The cowardice...

Scroll on.

Kill yourself.
 

PhiloBeddo » 20 May 2026, 11:15 am » wrote: ↑

20 May 2026, 11:15 am

 Skilled people will always be in demand.

Actually, they aren't anymore. AI can program things in one hour that a 100k/yr programmer could that would normally take them 2 months.